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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:19:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070328111921.GA2703@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327133845.GM521@postel.suug.ch>

On 27-03-2007 14:38, Thomas Graf wrote:
> The results of FIB rules lookups are cached in the routing cache
> except for IPv6 as no such cache exists. So far, it was the
> responsibility of the user to flush the cache after modifying any
> rules. This lead to many false bug reports due to misunderstanding
> of this concept.
> 
> This patch automatically flushes the route cache after inserting
> or deleting a rule.

I hope I'm wrong, but isn't this at the cost of admins
working with long rules' sets, which (probably) take extra
time now?

Regards,
Jarek P. 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 13:38 [RESEND] [NET] fib_rules: Flush route cache after rule modifications Thomas Graf
2007-03-27 20:57 ` David Miller
2007-03-28 11:19 ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2007-03-28 15:49   ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 18:24     ` David Miller
2007-03-28 19:34       ` Thomas Graf
2007-03-28 19:40         ` David Miller
2007-03-29 10:03         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-03-29 10:15           ` Jarek Poplawski

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